RainbowR meetup

November 1, 2022

Overview

  • Notes about this session

  • What is rainbowR?

  • Who is it for?

  • Since the last meet-up

  • Show and Tell

  • Connecting and brainstorming breakout

  • Back together

Notes about this session

Getting ready for Show and Tell

  • Please post in chat if you’ve got something to show

Our mission is to support, promote and connect LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism.

LGBTQ+ people

  • those who identify as being a minority sexual orientation, i.e. those who are not straight/heterosexual

  • those who are not cisgender, i.e. those whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex

These are rainbowRs!

To our straight, cis friends: we very much appreciate your allyship and your support of rainbowR, e.g. by sharing our information and posts on social media and by telling your friends and colleagues about us.

Since the last meet-up

Things that have gone well

  • 47 new members in the Slack group (107 in total)

  • lots of new Twitter followers

  • lots of engagement with the TidyRainbow launch announcement tweet

Where things could be going better

  • very little activity on Slack, except for a few introductions in #welcome

  • have only posted/publicised one TidyRainbow dataset

  • would be good to have more people involved

What next?

  • regular zoom hangouts (monthly? quarterly?)

  • send out another TidyRainbow dataset, and continue to do so regularly (monthly?)

  • organise some kind of event on Slack to get people logging in and engaging in community there

  • Make a rainbowR blog post template, then encourage others to contribute to blog

  • ideas from the community

    • add to etherpad

Show and Tell!

Let’s chat!

Breakout rooms

  • Some topics to discuss/note:

    • what would you like RainbowR to be, in order to best serve its community?

    • what kind of activities would you like RainbowR to run?

    • ideas for blog-posts

    • ideas for data sets for data-driven activism

    • would you like to contribute and, if so, how?

    • Anything else you’d like to add

Back together

  • Share ideas from the breakout room

  • Any questions?

Thank you!